On 29.12.2012 23:42, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 12/29/2012 11:24 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > On 29.12.2012 22:40, Milan Broz wrote:
> >>
> >> WARNING: benchmark requires kernel userspace crypto API to be available
> >> (kernel af_alg and algif_skcipher modules, introduced in Linux kernel 2.6.38).
> >
> > This message doesn't help at all when you have a kernel that doesn't
> > have it enabled and thus you can't find any module by that name. (And
> > you CAN have a kernel with it build in, no module in that case too)
> >
> > The option for algif_skcipher is:
> > CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER
> > "Cryptographic API" -> "User-space interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms"
> >
> > The other option (that is responsible for af_alg) is hidden and
> > automatically 'select'ed by activating the option above.
>> I am not sure if it was this way in previous kernels (skcipher was added later,
> IIRC first was only hash API)
> Anyway, I'll fix description in final release here.
I haven't checked that, i only 'grep'ed the current 3.7.1 kernel source
to find out what was missing from my kernel.
--
Matthias